okruh

plural okruhs · plural okruhy

1. UkrainealternativeAlternative form of okrug.

   At the time of the 1926 census Ukrainian lands in the U.S.S.R. were administratively divided into okruhs (divisions or departments) and rayons (districts).

   1976 [1974 spring], “Notes”, in Olena Saciuk, Bohdan Yasen, transl., compiled by Maksym Sahaydak, Etnocide of Ukrainians in the U.S.S.R. (The Ukrainian Herald: An Underground Journal from Soviet Ukraine; 7–8), Baltimore, Md.: Smoloskyp Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, note 50, page 183

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   Czechoslovakia had zemli (lands) and okruhy (districts). Still almost everywhere historical memory of the Ukrainian people has preserved age-long used names.

   1998, M. F. Dmytrienko, O. Ye. Markova, All about Ukraine, part I (The state and people), Kyiv: Видавничий дім «Альтернативи» [Vydavnyčyj dim “Alʹternatyvy”], →ISBN, page 71, column 1

   In 1923, okruhs (regions) and raions (districts) replaced volosti and counties, and in 1925 the division into gubernias was abolished. The Ukrainian okruhs of Tahanrih and Shakhty were ceded to Russia in 1924.

   2005, Zenon E[ugene] Kohut, Bohdan Y. Nebesio, Myroslav Yurkevich, “Administrative Divisions of Ukraine”, in Historical Dictionary of Ukraine (Historical Dictionaries of Europe; 45), Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 20

   During the second half of the 1920s the borders of the Soviet Ukraine were altered on several occasions. The biggest change came in 1925, when the far eastern okruhs of Shakhty and Taganrog (a total of 10,900 square miles or 28,000 square kilometers) were transferred to Soviet Russia.

   2007, Paul Robert Magocsi, “Soviet Ukraine in the Interwar Years”, in Ukraine: An Illustrated History, Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 223

   The remainder of this chapter investigates the causal factors behind the proportion of each oblast’s vote for successful candidates classified as “in favor” on each of the three issues. The winners’ votes were summed across all okruhs within each oblast.

   2014, Robert S[acha] Kravchuk, Victor Chudowsky, “Ukraine’s 1994 Elections as an Economic Event”, in Paul D’Anieri, Taras Kuzio, editors, Aspects of the Orange Revolution I: Democratization and Elections in Post-Communist Ukraine (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society), Stuttgart: ibidem Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 34

   The data is drawn from the okruhy of Volyn’, Lubny, Luhans’k, Mariulop’, Melitopol’, Mykolaiiv’, Nizhyn, Pervomais’k, Pryluky, Poltava, Proskuriv, Odessa.

   2020, Daria Mattingly, “Idle, Drunk, and Good for Nothing: Cultural Memory of the Rank-and-File Perpetrators of the 1932–33 Famine in Ukraine”, in Anna Wylegala, Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper, editors, The Burden of the Past: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, part I (The Memory of Holodomor), 58